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Black Employees At NYC TGI Friday’s Claim They Were Replaced With Light-Skinned Workers

By Ruth Manuel-Logan

 

A group of African-American workers at a Manhattan TGI Friday’s restaurant filed a class-action discrimination suit when they were allegedly replaced by lighter-skinned employees after the eatery moved to a new location, states the New York Daily News.

The lawsuit was filed on Thursday at the Bronx Supreme Court. According to reports, the group of black workers let their feelings be known to the higher-ups about the blatantly racist move, but one manager in particular reportedly informed one of the plaintiffs that his preference was to employ a Hispanic staff because of their diligent work ethic.

“It was their opinion that black people were lazy,” Lisa Baker, 48, a waitress, who spoke to the newspaper, said. “We weren’t even given a chance.”

 

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Source: newsone.com

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Race and Money: Blacks Seen as Darker During Tough Economic Times

See on Scoop.it – Community Village Daily

Tough economic times aren’t just hard on the wallet, they’re hard on race relations, too, a new study suggests.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

One of the statements in the experiment: “When Blacks make economic gains, Whites lose out economically”

 

The experiment indicates to me that when times are tough people become more xenophobic and less logical.

 

People who are against immigration also have views about loosing out economically, not realizing the fact that a larger population leads to economic gains for all.

 

See on blogs.discovermagazine.com

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Lupita Nyong’o Wins Oscar For Role in “12 Years a Slave”

 

“Lupita Nyongo’s image was recently altered in Vanity Fair magazine to lighten her skin tone. But as you can see in these photos, she’s absolutely beautiful just as she is. And she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress! ”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I love that Nyongo won and that Halle Berry had won for Monsters Ball in a previous year.

But what does it say about the U.S. that Black women only win an Oscar if the role they win for was when they were playing the abused or disrespected Black woman.

Next, I want to see an Oscar awarded to a Black woman for playing a role where she’s not being abused or disrespected.

And a curious double standard in U.S. culture is how the U.S. is mostly modest in terms of covering our bodies, even on the vast majority of beaches. However, these two women only won their awards after their bodies were bared on screen.

See on illuminatebytanya.wordpress.com